Mouser:fozziewazzi: Well there were always the natives. It's interesting that the British would rather have poked each each than sample the local cuisine, while the Spanish had no problem at all taking native booty. Look at the all the places the British settled - they had to have white women. They'd rather have bros and hos before taking on a native wife.

My guess is, after having been colonized by the Moors Moops for a few centuries, the Spanish probably figured that adding a few more brown people to the gene pool wouldn't matter.

poe_zlaw:That's a sad story with a sorry attempt to make it sound acceptable. Basically state sanctioned sex slaves. Seriously-- imagine the ship when it arrives at port-- the men on the shore waiting its arrival. Do you think they were there on their knees asking for date?

Well, I guess we should track down all the people involved and execute them. I'd be totally on board with that. It's terrible and we should make it so that nobody responsible is alive anymore.

kvinesknows:kid_icarus: Nurglitch: So, they cured homosexuality in New South Wales eh?

Prison ghey != actual ghey.

does telling yourself that help you to sleep better?

You hafta empty your balls into something, and they didn't have any of your fancy fleshlights or inflatable dolls back in those days. It was really a choice between sticking your goo bazooka into a man or a wallaby, and granted some of those wallabies were pretty damn sexy, but they didn't have the nice, glovelike feel of the insides of a man.

One famous woman convict was Mary Bryant, portrayed here by Romola Garai, left, in a TV drama. Nineteen-year-old Bryant became a cause celebre in London after escaping from a penal colony in Australia before being recaptured and brought back to Britain

letrole:kvinesknows: Prison ghey != actual ghey.letrole: Homosexuality is often a compromise for those who are unable to form normal relationships. Any port in a storm, as it were.Abe Vigoda's Ghost: Umm, no.

Umm, yes.

Homosexuality is a Learned Behaviour. The instinct for sex involves thrusting and groping and kissing and so forth. If you get horny at the sight of a naked man, or if you get horny at the sight of a naked woman, it is only because you have been taught to make that association.

I'm sure that your statement is based on hard scientific research done in the dark recesses of your mind. So I guess there is no point in continuing on with this conversation.

I have a friend (whose mother still owns a whore house) who can trace the family madam heritage back that far. I expect that book to go for far more than £7000 if their family name is in it. Her great x 6 grandmother was a mistress that fell out of favor and was sent to Australia for being a whore.

If the book has the right signatures, it could be worth £50 million in blackmail potential alone.